Software anecdotes are much more important than life experience anecdotes. The variables you are referring to are controllable (and reducible), unlike in life. We should care when an information tool provides terribly, terribly wrong information - even rarely.
Not really. Search isn't a simple "location + query = results" anymore. Google integrates your past queries, it's estimation of your interests, LLM randomness and loads of other things that means search isn't controllable or reproducible.
This isn't like an SQL query where a weird result 1 in 1 million times would be an indication of a bug.
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Software anecdotes are much more important than life experience anecdotes. The variables you are referring to are controllable (and reducible), unlike in life. We should care when an information tool provides terribly, terribly wrong information - even rarely.
Not really. Search isn't a simple "location + query = results" anymore. Google integrates your past queries, it's estimation of your interests, LLM randomness and loads of other things that means search isn't controllable or reproducible.
This isn't like an SQL query where a weird result 1 in 1 million times would be an indication of a bug.